The Pogues - Live at the Town and Country

[Guest]

March 1988.

[Guest]

I just picked this up on Ebay from a seller in Cincinnati, and while I love Joe Strummer as much as anyone, his blathering is enough to drive me crazy. Shut up , Joe

[Balazs]

apparently, the DVD was released without the Pogues Permission - I've got the DVD, and I think its great, but the Pogues werent asked if it could be released and I'd be surprised if they got any money from it!

Why don't The Pogues release an official DVD? Every single band has a DVD nowadays...

[pogues24]

My friend Gary ordered this for me Christmas. However, it won't arrive until January due to holiday back order. I've never seen this entire show, so I'm looking forward to it. Your guys opinions!!

Iain

[Zuzana]

You have much to look forward to. In some other threads, there have been complaints that the show is incomplete and that there are some continuity issues, but for me the DVD is just brilliant. And it includes a great rendition of Worms.

[Pyro]

I must admit I don´t like it as much as some other shows - although it certainly isn´t bad, the sound is too...flat to me. Some songs are very well done though. And while Joe´s talking is not really necessary, London Calling is purely fantastic - because of it, I watch the DVD again and again

[strummercalling]

I must admit I don´t like it as much as some other shows - although it certainly isn´t bad, the sound is too...flat to me. Some songs are very well done though. And while Joe´s talking is not really necessary, London Calling is purely fantastic - because of it, I watch the DVD again and again

I suppose Joe's talking is what sustains the "Rockumentary" feel of the show (which is apparently what it was intended to be rather than a concert video), and to tell the truth I don't mind it. When showing the DVD to the uninitiated, non-Pogues fan, Joe's succinct description of each band member is actually quite helpful.

Plus there are some very quotable lines in there such as "Stay in bed when the Pogues are in town? That's a stupid thing to do!"

[Pyro]

Yeah. Usually, I´d mind when someone would jump in the song into backstage, as in Dirty old Town, but in his case, I don´t.

And about those comments I like that it isn´t as many different "Shane is a god" "Rest are good".

I think case of Popes clearly shows it wasn´t only by Shane.

[Billie]

It's a great gig, got it on a DVD from Amazon and feel loads of envy for every single person who was there that night.

I can't help but get chills up and down my spine when Phil Chevron does that magic backing vocal in "Thousands are Sailing" on the "and we raised a glass to JFK and a dozen more besides". I think that 5 seconds are to me the most emotional moment of the whole Pogues' production.

[philipchevron]

It's a great gig, got it on a DVD from Amazon and feel loads of envy for every single person who was there that night.

I can't help but get chills up and down my spine when Phil Chevron does that magic backing vocal in "Thousands are Sailing" on the "and we raised a glass to JFK and a dozen more besides". I think that 5 seconds are to me the most emotional moment of the whole Pogues' production.

My six years in the school choir were not entirely wasted then.

[Johan From Sweden]

It's a great gig, got it on a DVD from Amazon and feel loads of envy for every single person who was there that night.

I can't help but get chills up and down my spine when Phil Chevron does that magic backing vocal in "Thousands are Sailing" on the "and we raised a glass to JFK and a dozen more besides". I think that 5 seconds are to me the most emotional moment of the whole Pogues' production.

My six years in the school choir were not entirely wasted then.

Think back Mr C, You can allways do alittle better in school, Wonder how good that song COULD have been then Gues we´ll never know so why bother, it´s still one of the top 10 Pogues songs.

Cheers
Johan

[philipchevron]

It's a great gig, got it on a DVD from Amazon and feel loads of envy for every single person who was there that night.

I can't help but get chills up and down my spine when Phil Chevron does that magic backing vocal in "Thousands are Sailing" on the "and we raised a glass to JFK and a dozen more besides". I think that 5 seconds are to me the most emotional moment of the whole Pogues' production.

My six years in the school choir were not entirely wasted then.

Think back Mr C, You can allways do alittle better in school, Wonder how good that song COULD have been then Gues we´ll never know so why bother, it´s still one of the top 10 Pogues songs.



Cheers
Johan

No no no, I could not have done any better at school. Somewhat like Shane, I was identified by the education system as a prodigy at an early age and I found the whole thing to be one gigantic yawn thereafter. My time in the school choir is a different matter, though. I grasped quite complex harmony and counterpoint, learned to sight-read tonic solfa, and developed personal systems of composition, transposition and notation. Much to my regret, unlike James Fearnley, I was never a solo chorister. But every time I sing the "Let them go boys" bits on "If I Should Fall From Grace With God" you are hearing just about the only worthwhile fragment of an Irish Christian Brothers' education.

[Johan From Sweden]

It's a great gig, got it on a DVD from Amazon and feel loads of envy for every single person who was there that night.

I can't help but get chills up and down my spine when Phil Chevron does that magic backing vocal in "Thousands are Sailing" on the "and we raised a glass to JFK and a dozen more besides". I think that 5 seconds are to me the most emotional moment of the whole Pogues' production.

My six years in the school choir were not entirely wasted then.

Think back Mr C, You can allways do alittle better in school, Wonder how good that song COULD have been then Gues we´ll never know so why bother, it´s still one of the top 10 Pogues songs.



Cheers
Johan

No no no, I could not have done any better at school. Somewhat like Shane, I was identified by the education system as a prodigy at an early age and I found the whole thing to be one gigantic yawn thereafter. My time in the school choir is a different matter, though. I grasped quite complex harmony and counterpoint, learned to sight-read tonic solfa, and developed personal systems of composition, transposition and notation. Much to my regret, unlike James Fearnley, I was never a solo chorister. But every time I sing the "Let them go boys" bits on "If I Should Fall From Grace With God" you are hearing just about the only worthwhile fragment of an Irish Christian Brothers' education.

OK, I´ll rest my case then

Gues i was just thinking off my self, that now days i wish that i would have had a bigger enrgy for the spelling lessons, I think you all can see why And it´s not better in Swedish

And about the singing lessons..... Ithink that the important thing is not HOW you sing, it´s about WHAT you sing. Thats why i love the Pogues It´s to listen to Shanes BEUTIFULL voice. But it´s still one off the BEST voices that i´w ever heard. and that goes for the rest off the band to.

Cheers
Johan

[Billie]

It's a great gig, got it on a DVD from Amazon and feel loads of envy for every single person who was there that night.

I can't help but get chills up and down my spine when Phil Chevron does that magic backing vocal in "Thousands are Sailing" on the "and we raised a glass to JFK and a dozen more besides". I think that 5 seconds are to me the most emotional moment of the whole Pogues' production.

My six years in the school choir were not entirely wasted then.

absolutely not, if that is the result

[Niall]

It's a great gig, got it on a DVD from Amazon and feel loads of envy for every single person who was there that night.

I can't help but get chills up and down my spine when Phil Chevron does that magic backing vocal in "Thousands are Sailing" on the "and we raised a glass to JFK and a dozen more besides". I think that 5 seconds are to me the most emotional moment of the whole Pogues' production.

My six years in the school choir were not entirely wasted then.

Think back Mr C, You can allways do alittle better in school, Wonder how good that song COULD have been then Gues we´ll never know so why bother, it´s still one of the top 10 Pogues songs.



Cheers
Johan

No no no, I could not have done any better at school. Somewhat like Shane, I was identified by the education system as a prodigy at an early age and I found the whole thing to be one gigantic yawn thereafter. My time in the school choir is a different matter, though. I grasped quite complex harmony and counterpoint, learned to sight-read tonic solfa, and developed personal systems of composition, transposition and notation. Much to my regret, unlike James Fearnley, I was never a solo chorister. But every time I sing the "Let them go boys" bits on "If I Should Fall From Grace With God" you are hearing just about the only worthwhile fragment of an Irish Christian Brothers' education.

i had an irish christian brothers education too, you should hear me sing that